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Dixie Baptist Church

Jasper · Jasper County · placed 1966

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Jasper County, Texas

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Founded about 1850 under beech trees at this site, by a Negro slave, Rev. Richard ("Uncle Dick") Seale (1798-1875), a respected, beloved leader of his people. Church built 1853 by his master, Joshua Seale, veteran of American Revolution, early settler. (1966)

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